:star: New Features

• Use JOOQ functionality to determine dialect #36991
• Add support for CNB platform API 0.12 #36712
• Upgrade default CNB builders to Paketo Jammy #36689
• Add resource hints for default MessageSource properties file locations #36682
• Add ThreadPoolTaskSchedulerBuilder as a replacement for TaskSchedulerBuilder #36651
• Add support for using an AuthTokenManager bean to authenticate with Neo4j #36650
• Add ThreadPoolTaskExecutorBuilder as a replacement for TaskExecutorBuilder #36637
• Deprecate support for OkHttp3 #36632
• Provide a condition for threading (platform or virtual) #36624
• Auto-configure SimpleAsyncTaskScheduler when virtual threads are enabled #36609
• Add auto-configuration for JdbcClient #36579
• Register user-provided SdkLoggerProvider and SdkMeterProvider on the OpenTelemetry bean #36545
• Provide OpenTelemetry Resource as a bean #36544
• Add RabbitMQ container forceStop property #36539
• Provide a condition for checkpoint-restore #36536
• Add since support to @DeprecatedConfigurationProperty and the resulting metadata #36482
• Allow auto-configured HikariDataSource to participate in checkpoint-restore #36422
• When virtual threads are enabled, auto-configure Kafka listener container factories to use a virtual thread based executor #36396
• When virtual threads are enabled, auto-configure Rabbit listener container factories to use a virtual thread based executor #36387
• Auto-configure AbstractKafkaListenerContainerFactory with any Function<MessageListenerContainer, String> bean as its threadNameSupplier #36344
• Provide a configuration property for Spring Kafka's changeConsumerThreadName MessageListenerContainer setting #36343
• Configure Virtual Threads support in Reactor #36302
• Order ProblemDetailsExceptionHandler beans #36288
• Provide SimpleAsyncTaskExecutorBuilder to build SimpleAsyncTaskExecutors #35711
• Rename run goal's directories property to additionalClasspathElements #35179
• Add R2DBC observation auto-configuration #33768
• Expose configuration properties to configure the WebsocketServerSpec to use #29567
• Support caching build layers to a bind mount #28387

:lady_beetle: Bug Fixes

• Changed environment variable name APP_PASSWORD to APP_USER_PASSWORD i? #37064
• Logging config URLs with query parameters are not detected as XML #37063
• BindableRuntimeHintsRegistrar does not generate hints for all nested types of a ConfigurationProperties type #37023
• server.max-http-request-header-size doesn't affect Netty server with http2 enabled #37016
• AbstractAotMojo should not add source or target if they are null #36973
• Exception message in ProcessTestAotMojo has a typo #36967
• Docker Compose start fails with "unknown flag: --no-color" #36910
• Script-based database initialization fails with an unhelpful error message when configured with a resource that points to a directory #36787
• Artemis ConnectionFactory is not configured when CachingConnectionFactory is missing and enabled properties are false #36773
• DatabaseDriver swallows real exception #36760
• Defining a custom ElasticsearchTransport causes the auto-configured JsonpMapper to back off #36701
• Auto-configuration's session repository customization may override that of SessionRepositoryCustomizer beans #36697
• @ServiceConnection on a @Bean method does not work in sliced tests #36661
• RabbitMQ smoke test is missing a test #36613
• Tomcat warns about a missing +/- prefix when enabling multiple protocols through server.ssl.enabled-protocols #36585
• management.metrics.export.stackdriver properties are incomplete #36560
• management.wavefront.metrics.export properties are incomplete #36557
• management.metrics.export.signalfx properties are incomplete #36554
• JobLauncherApplicationRunner returns a success exit code even when no jobs have been run #36533
• Remove use of jakarta.annotation.PostConstruct #36530
• management.metrics.export.atlas properties are incomplete #36527
• Descriptions of started and ready time metrics contain time units but the unit may change when the metrics are exported #36517
• Unlike other Spring Boot goals, process-aot and process-test-aot run on Maven reactor projects #36495

:notebook_with_decorative_cover: Documentation

• Fix broken links in the documentation #37072
• Maven plugin docs contain invalid parameter for image building #37052
• Align javadoc of AbstractFilterRegistrationBean#setDispatcherTypes #36970
• Improve documentation of spring.cache.type=none #36963
• Clarify that spring.security.filter properties only apply to servlet-based web apps #36866
• Improve documentation to describe how @EntityScan and @Enable?Repositories can be used to tune scanning #36863
• Describe quirks of JUL and Log4j2 in the javadoc of OutputCaptureExtension #36860
• LogbackLoggingSystem does not report suppressed exception details #36857
• Clarify table that shows how logging properties are transferred to system properties #36854
• Review Google AppEngine documentation #36851
• Rework Working with NoSQL Technologies to clarify which stores are supported by Spring Data #36814
• Clarify how nested directories are treated for configtree with wildcards #36811
• Clarify the effect of using @EnableWebMvc #36798
• Document defaults for spring.mvc.format.* and spring.webflux.format.* properties #36794
• Documentation describes how to opt in to using the path pattern parser but it's now the default #36790
• Document that scripts for database initialization are optional by default and how they can be made mandatory #36784
• Document @DataR2dbcTest support #36757
• @since is missing from javadoc of values added to JavaVersion since its introduction #36736
• Add Javadoc since to new PemSslStoreBundle constructor #36693
• Update Paketo builder references in documentation #36691
• Document how to use Docker Compose integration when running tests #36647
• Update RestTemplateBuilder#defaultHeader javadoc to reference correct client-side HTTP request class #36631
• Document that server.forward-headers-strategy property defaults to native when running on Kubernetes #36582
• Documentation of spring.data.redis.url incorrectly states that it does not override spring.data.redis.user #36493
• Remove references to Atomikos and Bitronix #35562

:hammer: Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Artemis 2.30.0 #36881
• Upgrade to AspectJ 1.9.20 #37005
• Upgrade to Byte Buddy 1.14.6 #36996
• Upgrade to Caffeine 3.1.8 #36882
• Upgrade to Cassandra Driver 4.17.0 #36883
• Upgrade to Commons Lang3 3.13.0 #36884
• Upgrade to Couchbase Client 3.4.8 #36988
• Upgrade to Dependency Management Plugin 1.1.3 #36981
• Upgrade to Elasticsearch Client 8.9.0 #36886
• Upgrade to Flyway 9.21.2 #37076
• Upgrade to Groovy 4.0.14 #37058
• Upgrade to Hazelcast 5.3.2 #37059
• Upgrade to Hibernate 6.2.7.Final #36888
• Upgrade to Infinispan 14.0.13.Final #36982
• Upgrade to Jersey 3.1.3 #36889
• Upgrade to jOOQ 3.18.6 #36983
• Upgrade to JUnit Jupiter 5.10.0 #36890
• Upgrade to Kafka 3.5.1 #36891
• Upgrade to Kotlin 1.9.10 #37092
• Upgrade to Kotlin Coroutines 1.7.3 #36892
• Upgrade to Lettuce 6.2.6.RELEASE #37006
• Upgrade to Logback 1.4.11 #36893
• Upgrade to Maven Enforcer Plugin 3.4.0 #37077
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.12.0-M2 #36675
• Upgrade to Micrometer Tracing 1.2.0-M2 #36676
• Upgrade to Mockito 5.5.0 #37078
• Upgrade to MSSQL JDBC 12.4.0.jre11 #36880
• Upgrade to Native Build Tools Plugin 0.9.24 #36894
• Upgrade to Neo4j Java Driver 5.11.0 #36895
• Upgrade to Netty 4.1.97.Final #37090
• Upgrade to OpenTelemetry 1.29.0 #36985
• Upgrade to Pooled JMS 3.1.1 #36897
• Upgrade to R2DBC Pool 1.0.1.RELEASE #36986
• Upgrade to R2DBC Proxy 1.1.2.RELEASE #36673
• Upgrade to Rabbit Stream Client 0.12.0 #36898
• Upgrade to Reactor Bom 2023.0.0-M2 #36677
• Upgrade to RxJava3 3.1.7 #37091
• Upgrade to Selenium 4.11.0 #36899
• Upgrade to Selenium HtmlUnit 4.11.0 #36900
• Upgrade to SnakeYAML 2.1 #36901
• Upgrade to Spring AMQP 3.0.8 #36940
• Upgrade to Spring Authorization Server 1.1.2 #36941
• Upgrade to Spring Batch 5.1.0-M2 #36944
• Upgrade to Spring Data Bom 2023.1.0-M2 #36680
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.1.0-M4 #36678
• Upgrade to Spring Integration 6.2.0-M2 #36943
• Upgrade to Spring Kafka 3.0.10 #36942
• Upgrade to Spring LDAP 3.2.0-M2 #36679
• Upgrade to Spring Security 6.2.0-M2 #37060
• Upgrade to Testcontainers 1.19.0 #37079
• Upgrade to Thymeleaf 3.1.2.RELEASE #36902
• Upgrade to Thymeleaf Extras SpringSecurity 3.1.2.RELEASE #36903
• Upgrade to Tomcat 10.1.12 #36987
• Upgrade to Undertow 2.3.8.Final #37032

:heart: Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@MahatmaFatalError, @NersesAM, @OnSuorce, @beckermarc, @chicobento, @christophstrobl, @dependabot[bot], @dreis2211, @eddumelendez, @elevne, @fzyzcjy, @garyrussell, @itsAkshayDubey, @izeye, @joesteel2010, @jongwooo, @ls-urs-keller, @michael-simons, @msobeck, @mzeijen, @normandra, @omaryaya, @polarbear567, @quaff, @ramilS, @rob-valor, @spa-abaudat, and @vpavic